Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1916 — WOMEN BECOME VERY INDEPENDENT [ARTICLE]

WOMEN BECOME VERY INDEPENDENT

BACHELORS OF FEMALE SEX 00 INTO ALL SORTS OF OCCUPATIONS Consider They Can Offer Better Service W-ithout Marriage. Reasons for the refusal of so many women to marry nowadays and the compensations of a celibate life for women are discussed t»y Earl Barnes in a recent number of the Popular Science Monthly. He tells us that there were more than 8,900,000 women in this country who were neither married, widowed nor divorced, or about 29.7 per cent, of all women above the age of 15 years. Scarcely any of the women among the 400,000 public school teachers in the country are married. Undoubtedly regulations in regard to married female teachers have had much to do with preventing marriages of these women, but the author is of the cpinion that the “growth of democratic ideals which has been steadily working among women since 1870’’ is largely responsible. Women, he says, are no longer merely "the sex” but are individuals; “a woman seeks fulfillment not only for personal liking, but for all the qualities of her varied personal life. The celibate woman retains her freedom of action. Through study, travel, art, science, or society, she may nach a degree of self-realization not always attained by her sister who marries.

“The desire for service which lies so deep in the nature of all good women can often be more fully realized in a life of personal freedom than in one of marriage.' At least there may be a different realization of very great value to the individual and to society. Such women as Clara Barton, Susan B. Anthony, and Jane Addams have brought gifts of service to mankind far beyond what they would probably have given in their own homes.” The modern woman, "he declares, has become self-conscious even awkwardly so in some cases, and has be come a seeker after the pleasures of vital experience. Because of her superior intelligence she is likely to marry late if at all: if is unable to find a man who pleasures up to her Intellectual ideals she refuses to accept one beneath them. « "The social emancipation of women ’ags far behind her intellectual and economic freedom, so that the young women we are considering still move socially in their family planes,” he says. "The men in that group are too ignorant and too poor to suit her; and the men with whom she works know her only as a stenographer, a teacher, or a journalist.”

HOW TO CUff POSES There is a right and/ a wrong way to cut roses. The clitnpe of the latter may seriously injure the blossompi oducing properties of the plants, it is pointed out by specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture. This applies particularly, of course, to rose plants chosen and grown especially for cut-flower production. Such roses will be largely of the perpetual blooming Sorts. When a rose is cut from such plants--tea roses or other perpetual bloomers —only two or three eyes of the current season’s growth of that branch should be left on the plant. This should give the roses very long stems. Succeeding blossoms should be cut close to the ground. It will seem like destroying the bush to take so much oi it, t&t it the object is the jtijisbs, the cutting away of the surplus wood wiil attain ♦he desired end. If the spring pruning has not been sufficiently severe the plant is likely to have long, naked stalks and short stems to the flowers. With • this character of growth only one or two strong leaf buds should be left on the branch when the flower is cut, so aarto stimulate as much growth as possible frohi the base of the plant The greatest temptation to leave wood is where there are two or more buds on one branch, some being small when the terminal one is open. This temptation to follow a bad practice can be avoided by pinching off all side shoots after a formed on tne end of a branch. This prevents the formation of two or more buds on one stalk. This summer pruning will encourage additional blooms on varieties which blocm more than * once a year.